Other people are not funny with you. 🚨
As a joke, it seems that Elon Musk can't laugh today after the AI "Grok" chatbot feature on the X platform was heavily criticized by the world for allowing users to take images of real people to edit, modify them into nudity or pornography, without limiting them to adults or minors.
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The tide grew from online drama to serious legal scrutiny, particularly in the United States, when several senators raised concerns that Grok had been used to pornography women and children without their consent, which netted violations of the fundamental rights and policies of digital platforms.
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Most recently, U.S. senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Luján and Edward Markey sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai calling for consideration of removing the X and Grok apps from the App Store until the issue of policy violations is resolved, stating that leaving apps conducive to deep-fake non-consensual sexual existence poses a direct risk to user safety.
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Meanwhile, the California attorney general has begun the process of investigating Grok developer xAI on the issue of creating and disseminating sexual content without consent, while the governor came forward to condemn the case as "offensive" and should not have taken place on a public platform.
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International pressure added even more weight to the case, when Indonesia and Malaysia officially declared Grok banned, arguing that the ability to correct or create giddy images of real individuals, was a serious violation of human rights and the law.
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Under the circumstances, X then announced a policy adjustment, banned Grok from creating or editing images of real persons in a precarious or nude manner, with confirmation that it would remove infringing material and prosecute the users involved.
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However, many parties also question whether this measure will be sufficient, when AI technology continues to develop faster than the state regulatory framework.
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Source: Reuters, The Sun Malaysia, BBC, Elon Musk (X), macrumors
